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Why an Outdoor Education Center
at Mono Lake?
1.
The Mono Lake Committee's education program is poised to expand to
include many more students from Los Angeles and all over California. With
the state's population growing by 500,000 people each year, the need for
water resource education is increasingly important. There are already a
growing number of educators lining up to come to Mono Lake, seeking the
resources and experiences that only a multi-day outdoor education center
can provide. The Mono Basin Outdoor Education
Center will meet this
need by serving 6,000 students per year, and by greatly enhancing the
quality of existing education programs. It will be the only center of this
kind in the entire Eastern Sierra.
2. The Mono
Basin is a dynamic outdoor classroom situated at the foot of the Sierra
Nevada, east of Yosemite. It offers a wide range of learning opportunities
through dramatically contrasting geography and diverse habitats and
ecosystems. Young people can hike into volcanoes, canoe among strange tufa
towers, investigate stream ecology, and observe thousands of migratory
birds. The Mono Basin Outdoor Education Center
will be an ideal base from which students can participate in inquiry-based
learning throughout this unique landscape.
3.
A wide variety of research, monitoring, and restoration work is
underway in the Mono Basin. This work provides a wealth of educational
opportunities and the chance for students to participate in restoration
along Mono Basin streams. The Mono Basin Outdoor
Education Center will effectively link educational opportunities with
research, monitoring, and hands-on restoration work by providing a
physical center for educators, students, and scientists to coordinate
their efforts.
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